As of this year, James Bond is in the public domain in Canada. Since the term of copyright in Canada is the life of the author plus fifty years, and Ian Fleming died in 1964, the copyrights in all of his James Bond novels and short stories expired on...

How well do you understand copyright and trademark law? When you travel about the Internet or make art, do you know what you are and aren't allowed to do, or do you have intellectual property myths stuck in your brain. We take a few claims we've seen...

Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer&rsquo;s repeated requests to delete his most famous shot as it is jeopardising his livelihood &ndash; because a monkey pressed the shutter button and "owns the copyright"

Need to use an image but not sure if you have the legal and ethical right to do so? Understanding the laws for using images can be a bit tricky, especially because there is wiggle room within the laws. And, with the mass distribution of images on the...

In what would become the first scandalously record-breaking Sotheby's art auction in 1973, taxi magnate Robert Scull and his wife famously made a fortune on 50 artworks from their collection, which included Robert Rauschenberg's painting Thaw. There,...

You could have heard about the "poor man's copyright" anywhere: from an older relative, from a friend, from a high school English teacher. They find out that you've been working on a novel and they want to help, so they tell you to mail it to yoursel...

When you want to feature a famous painting in a movie, you can't simply slap a poster of a Monet or a Picasso in a frame and yell, "Action!"—nor can you cart the real thing from its space on a museum wall to the set

For the last few years I've been writing a scholarly book about Shel Silverstein's life and work. Yet, after five years of labor, I've recently come to realize that my book will very possibly never be published. Why not? Well, certainly not because t...